vengeful - Story 162983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The building’s announcement felt like a punch to the gut. This was Maya’s safe space, her refuge from a world that constantly demanded more. Now, she was supposed to compete in the cutthroat real estate market?

She felt a persistent, cold knot in her stomach. It seemed to grow tighter the more she thought about it.

One morning, she noticed the construction crew had left a pile of expensive, pristine tiles, intended for the building's lobby, uncovered. A quiet chuckle escaped her lips.

Later, she “accidentally” dropped her paint bucket on them, splattering the expensive white surfaces with a vibrant, unplanned collage of primary colors.

Emotion: vengeful

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 1.70 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 3.71

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vengeful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 vengeful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vengeful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vengeful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.739
`la`	0.527
`l`	0.507
`😈`	0.422
`-`	0.379

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.981
`此刻`	-0.504
`గుర్త`	-0.464
`보니`	-0.454
`仿佛`	-0.442